The Lions of Michigan Avenue are a pair of 1893 bronze sculptures by Edward Kemeys installed as guardians of the Art Institute of Chicago. The Art Institute of Chicago, what a blockbuster.
It was our morning to visit the Art Institute. We got there before it opened and before the line got long.
The signature piece on display was Katsushika Hokusai’s The Great Wave, recently brought out of storage where they keep it for years out of the light.
At first we didn’t even see the thing! Yes, it was on a side-wall, so small. Wow.
Here are a few pictures as a reminder to myself of what a fabulous place this is and how little of what was there that we actually saw.
We took a stroll around Navy Pier, a tourist attraction with an amusement park, restaurants, home to exhibition space, festivals, etc.
I got to do a small section of the Riverwalk which only made me want to do it all. It’s quite wonderful.
Notice the ads plastering the side of the trains. It can make it hard to look out the windows…
Marsha really wanted to have a fancy Chicago steak house dinner and chose Smith and Wollensky Steak House which turned out to be exactly that, a fancy Chicago steak house where the food was delicious and the river view was equally fabulous. Not so fancy though that we were not completely comfortable in our touring clothes so win-win.
Catching more shots of the river on the way home.
And oh my goodness, here we are again in Millennium Park and…
…The BEAN!
